Fraser Nelson

Europe’s ready for a reset on refugees — are we? Social democrat and centre-right parties alike are recognising that postwar agreements can’t fix 21st-century problems

The prime minister could start an honest discussion about what a progressive immigration policy might look like, writes @frasernelson.bsky.social
How to define and discharge our duties to the world’s poorest, while protecting social cohesion at home.
Hear hear
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Cindy Yu: No, I am not a Chinese spy Cindy Yu came to Britain from China when she was nine. She’s long put up with jibes that she’s really working for Beijing — but the joke is wearing thin

I’ve lost count of the number of people who put to me that my colleague Cindy Yu might be a spy.

Funny? At first. But it’s becoming a kind of soft McCarthyism that she confronts head-on in this brilliant piece.

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Beyonce and socioeconomics She was sounding the alarm on the masculinity crisis before anyone

Beyonce and socioeconomics - how music nails the trends long before the politicians frasernelson.substack.com/p/the-socioe...

Want to help the poor? Don’t chase out the rich Taxing the wealthy sounds like an easy way to fix inequality, but as Rachel Reeves is discovering, it’s not as simple as that

The Gary Stevenson/Piketty formula is simple:
r > g = more inequality.

It’s also false. And that matters, especially for Labour.

My column:- www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Men and boys: 10 takeaways From my CPS discussion with Richard Reeves and Nick Eberstadt

The crisis of masculinity: 10 takeaways from my convo with Richard Revees and AEI’s Nick Eberstadt

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Musk vs Gates Which was the bigger killer: aid cuts, or lockdown theory?

Musk vs Gates - where was Bill's candour in the lockdown years?
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Video Journalists of the Year

@frasernelson.bsky.social and the @channel4news.bsky.social team behind documentary "Britain's Benefit Scandal"

Fraser and the Channel 4 team stood out with a forensic look at "worklessness", one of the biggest problems facing the UK economy

London is magnificent - but, still, quiet Tube and bus journeys ~15% lower than pre-lockdown

London is better now than perhaps any time in its history

Some thoughts on my magnificent adopted hometown.

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The steel deal is coercion, not nationalisation Keir Starmer is threatening to imprison non-compliant executives. Why?

Starmer should have nationalised British Steel today, as Attlee and Wilson did. Instead, he set up a law that allows him to dictate terms to a private company and imprison its executives for up to two years if they don’t comply.

My take on a dangerous precedent:-

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Elon Musk vs Trump The red-pill tech bros know it's a disaster - but don't expect Trump to buckle

Musk vs Trump: my take on today's madness frasernelson.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

Tech titans point way to a bright-green future Yesterday’s target-driven environmentalism is outdated now the West has proven growth does not have to cost the earth

Trump pulling out of Paris Agreement didn't slow the fall in US emissions last time (2017) and probably won't now.

Decarbonisation is happening regardless, and will happen faster if US focus on growth / innovation bears fruit.

My Times column:- www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

New: 106 murders in London last year, second-lowest on record www.datawrapper.de/_/qhH9t/

Agree.

All hail Kylie Does Kylie Minogue deserve an OBE? News of her honour has irked the usual suspects, perhaps because they are not up to date with her career and cultural achievement. Virgin Radio was once caught out i...

Well, a more edifying exchange than the one I had with her when trying to explain my Kylie vs Taliban article - which I still stand by. www.spectator.co.uk/article/all-...

John Cleese called me ‘a half-educated tenement Scot’ For 15 years, Fraser Nelson was the editor of The Spectator, mixing with celebrities and politicians and becoming a sought-after pundit on radio and TV. As he joins The Times, he reveals what it’s lik...

After 15 years as an editor, I’m making a new start: as a columnist for The Times. I join today.

My first article is for the The Times Magazine, introducing myself. Or, rather, letting John Cleese do so...
www.thetimes.com/article/91ac...

For the last few weeks I’ve been working on a Ch4 documentary on the sickness benefit surge - telling the story from the perspective of those trapped in a system designed to help them.

It airs Mon 2 Dec at 8pm.